I am a research scientist at Meta Reality Labs. I received my Doctorate from University of California, San Diego, advised by Prof. Manmohan Chandraker.  Before that, I received my Bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Jiansheng Chen. Throughout my studies, I was also fortunate to be mentored by Prof. Ravi Ramamoorthi, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Miloš Hašan, Zhao Dong, and Prof. Olga Veksler.

My research interest is in inverse rendering, scene understanding, neural rendering and 3D foundation models. I am honored to receive Powell Fellowship (2016), Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (2020), and UCSD CSE Best Doctoral Dissertation Award (2022). 

Internships at Meta: Please feel free to send me your CV and research interest to my personal email (lizhengqin2012-at-gmail-dot-com) or company email (zhl-at-meta-dot-com).